History Main / UnstoppableRage

* Millie in ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'' is a very competent CuteButPsycho KnifeNut ProfessionalKiller at normal times. Threaten her husband Moxxie and she goes into deadly MamaBear mode. But (as seen in season 2 episode 3) try to get her out of the way and force Moxxie to marry a ''really annoying'' guy who's ''both'' her and his ex... words don't begin to describe it, and a couple dozen mafia goons trying to stop her are little more than something for her to vent her emotions on. Things she does during this battle include pulling someone's skull out of their head, kicking a bullet out of mid-air, and biting someone's heart out.

* Millie in ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'' is a very competent CuteButPsycho KnifeNut ProfessionalKiller at normal times. Threaten her husband Moxxie and she goes into deadly MamaBear mode. But (as seen in season 2 episode 3) try to get her out of the way and force Moxxie to marry a ''really annoying'' guy who's ''both'' her and his ex... words don't begin to describe it, and a couple dozen mafia goons trying to stop her are little more than something for her to vent her emotions on. Things she does during this battle include pulling someone's skull out of their head and kicking a bullet out of mid-air.

** SCP-096. When someone sees its face(It doesn't matter if it's in person or ''4 pixels'' in a picture) it will enter a homicidal and unstoppable rage that won't end until the person who saw his face is dead. One attempt to see just how far it would go involved putting a guy in a bathysphere over six miles underwater and hundreds of miles away from its containment before showing him a picture. [[TheJuggernaut It bought the guy forty minutes]].

* Along with his better-known abilities, Wiki/{{SCP|Foundation}}-682 is noticeably prone to these. Given that he's unstoppable even ''outside'' his rages, this is a bad thing.

* ''[[Machinima/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers SMG4]]'': In the episode "Princess Capturing Simulator", after Bowser cheats, [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Mario gets so angry that he teleports]] to where Bowser is and shoots him once for all.

* Caboose tries to intentionally invoke this in himself when he and Sarge are trapped in a bizarre land of eternal war in ''Machinima/RedVsBlue''. 'I am Michael J Caboose ... and I HATE BABIES!' Followed by 'Hurk! Blagh!' repeatedly.

* Featured in ''Pinball/TheAvengersStern'', where the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk sits on the playfield. During the game, he flails his fists and grabs pinballs; premium editions even include a "Ramp Throwing" action where the Hulk throws a ramp.

* Flippy of ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' goes into this whenever anyone does something that reminds him of the war he fought in. Subverted in "Remains To Be Seen", "Class Act", "Autopsy Turvy", and "By The Seat Of Your Pants" when he is killed while in his flipped-out state. Taken UpToEleven in "A Vicious Cycle" where his rampage continues even ''after'' his death.

Compare with SuperpoweredEvilSide. See also RageBreakingPoint and [[RantInducingSlight Rant-Inducing Slight]], where this is set off by a multitude of things piling up until a final event proves to be the last straw. ThePowerOfHate is a similar concept, but focused on hate instead of simply fury.

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** The duel between Anakin, Obi-Wan and Dooku at the beginning of ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' mirrors the one in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' in a lot of ways. Dooku knocks out Obi-Wan and then proceeds to taunt Anakin, which enrages him enough that he flies into a rage and pummels Dooku, ultimately chopping both his hands off. Then while he has Dooku at swordpoint (like the SwordOverHead scene with Luke in ''Jedi''), Palpatine urges him to execute the Sith Lord. Unlike Luke, Anakin goes through with it, though he instantly regrets it.

->''"Rage is a hell of an anesthetic."''
-->-- '''[[PsychoForHire Zaeed]] [[PunchClockHero Massani]]''', ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''

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* The savage Wolverine after which the popular X-Man is named after is infamous for its relentless refusal to stop chasing, attacking and mauling it's prey/threat until either it or itself is dead. In fact, it's jaws will clamp down and '''lock onto''' its victim in death, and nothing short of a crowbar can pry it open if you do not want your limb to go gangrenous.
** All of the above also applies to the Tasmanian Devil, its closest Australian marsupial equivalent. Made doubly scary (or hilarious) by the fact that that unlike the wolverine, it's no bigger than a large housecat.
* Played with by the common honeybee: although they will pursue and sting all threats to the hive, they literally do so unto their deaths only in the case of mammals, as the curved and barbed nature of their stingers causes them to get lodged in a mammal's skin, and thus should they attempt to fly free, their insides will be pulled out in the process. Wasps and hornets play this trope straighter as they, with straight and smooth stingers, do ''not'' possess this problem, and will ''repeatedly'' sting any mammal that poses a threat to their hives until it is either dead or driven off.
* Defied with the bulls killed in bullfights, which are by nature peaceful herbivores, and have to be goaded into anger with multiple stabs of the dagger moments before they are sent to their deaths at the blades of the Matador in the arena.
* Bull elephants in musth would be the crowning animal example of unstoppable rage. A periodic hormonal condition where male elephants are extremely violent towards their surroundings unless they mate with a female, these frenzied monsters are capable of destroying everything in their path, including trees, vehicles, and houses. They can easily kill any animal within range, from carnivores to large surly animals such Cape Buffalo, Rhinos, Hippos, and even other male elephants. Outside of musth, it is still very unwise to provoke ''any'' elephant; they are the largest land animals, so not many things can stop an angry elephant's rampage. There is a reason elephants are ranked as number one on ''The Most Extreme: Hissy Fits;'' even over ''Grizzly Bears'' and '''Africanized Honeybees.'''
* The African Honey Badger, while small and cuddly on the outside, is a mean fighting machine that can SLEEP OFF Cobra Bites that can kill adult men ten times over, and EAT said cobras as a part of their staple diet. Worse, they are as bad-tempered as their American counterparts the Wolverine, enough so that LIONS would rather flee for their lives than take on the wrath of these little furballs of claws and teeth.
* The Bull Shark, found in shallow tropical and semi-tropical seas and frequently in rivers that connect to them; as ounce for ounce, they have the single highest concentration of blood testosterone of ''any'' Vertebrata on the planet. That's right, folks; the Male Bull Shark has a temper and rage that ''rivals'' the aforementioned Male African Elephant, ''the'' single most violent and dangerous land-mammal, in Mating Season, '''every''' single day.
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* Madam Blue towards the end of ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicRoundabout'' film ''Dougal and the Blue Cat''. She is quite livid upon finding out from Buxton that Blue Peter is actually Dougal, that she strips Buxton from his title of King and unleashes a violent thunderstorm around the treacle factory, causing it to collapse. By the time she calms down, Madam Blue breaks down in tears over her failure of turning everything in the universe blue.

** A version of the legend makes this even scarier by having the massacring goddess being Hathor, the [[BewareTheNiceOnes nice and happy goddess of the moon, music, dance joy, feminine love and]] [[MamaBear motherhood]], with ''Sekhmet'' being the one who made the sea of beer mixed with pomegranate juice. Another version would see Sekhmet and Hathor being NotSoDifferent.

* In [[Music/{{mothy}} Akuno P]]'s ''Franchise/EvilliousChronicles'', the [[SevenDeadlySins sin]] of Wrath is represented in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGFeL7Az0J8 The Muzzle of Nemesis]]'', sung by Gumi. The singer, an assassin [[MeaningfulName appropriately named]] Nemesis, is seeking revenge on her former employer, who ordered her to kill her lover. In a twist, the employer is not only [[spoiler:her father, but the corrupt judge who represented {{Greed}}.]] Notably, she ''does'' give him a chance to repent.

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** The duel between Anakin, Obi-Wan and Dooku at the beginning of ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' mirrors the one in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' in a lot of ways. Dooku knocks out Obi-Wan and then proceeds to taunt Anakin, which pisses him off enough that he flies into a rage and pummels Dooku, ultimately chopping both his hands off. Then while he has Dooku at swordpoint (like the SwordOverHead scene with Luke in ''Jedi''), Palpatine urges him to execute the Sith Lord. Unlike Luke, Anakin goes through with it, though he immediately regrets it.

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* The titular character from ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'' when he's threatened. Explicitly stated to be part of his programming, that has absolutely nothing to do with rage and he has no conscious control over it initially. To be clear, [[spoiler: he resists with his little friend's help and runs away, but when the attacks persist and his friend appears to be dead, the giant emotes some very clear rage and engages his attack-response programming]]
* [[PunnyName Hannover Fiste]] towards Captain Sternn in ''WesternAnimation/HeavyMetal'': '''"STEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!"''' [[spoiler: Subverted when it turns out it was all an act.]]

* During the big showdown at the end of ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTailFievelGoesWest'', [[TheDragon Chula the spider]] takes Miss Kitty hostage. This causes Tiger to flip out, barking ferociously and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWMlQ5Ut9xo&feature=related singlehandedly kicking the asses]] of all of Cat R. Waul's {{Mooks}} before dragging Chula down and tossing him on the mousetrap's arm with the rest of the baddies.

* Queen Elinor as Mum-Bear in ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'' [[BerserkButton gets some moments]] while going MamaBear to protect Merida from [[BigBad Mor'du]]. Also, her husband, Fergus, when [[MistakenForOwnMurderer he thinks Mor'du had kidnapped or killed her]] and chases her, gets this moment, despite Merida's [[CassandraTruth desperate protests about the bear's identity]].
* ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'': [[spoiler: When Hiro learns Callaghan was Yokai, and he was responsible for Tadashi's death, he goes ''[[BerserkButton absolutely berserk]]'' (albeit in a TranquilFury way) and turns Baymax into a killing machine in order to kill Callaghan. He doesn't even calm down until he sees Tadashi's video.]]
* From ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'', we get to see what's beneath [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Unikitty's]] GenkiGirl persona when it slips. Woe betide anyone she unleashes her rage onto, as the climax could attest.

* PlayedForLaughs in the short film ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbGw_cWgr5U The Saw]]'' (by Creator/RoosterTeeth collaborator Samantha Ireland), where a woman attending an anger management group decides to use her fury to become a "heroine", The Saw (shortened from the original [[FunWithAcronyms Super Angry Woman]]).
* Toyed with in ''Film/MysteryMen'' as the audience doesn't know whether Ben Stiller's character is capable of this as a superpower. We find out in the end.
-->My uncontrollable rage will make this world a better place!

* Happens occasionally in ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'', especially when a nice guy is [[BewareTheNiceOnes pushed too far.]]
** Such as [[spoiler: Adam Dodd going ballistic on Cody Jenson near the end of V1, who he has [[ItsPersonal every reason]] to want dead]].
* ''Literature/SailorNothing'': Although Himei usually just wills her opponents into non-existence, she has been known to tear them apart with her bare hands if put under sufficient emotional stress.

* Badfic is so horrendously bad that unstoppable rage is a common reaction for ''WebOriginal/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum'' agents, especially when a favorite canon character is threatened.
* Parodied in Linkara's review of ''Wolverine: Adamantium Rage.''
** [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall "ADAMANTIUM RAGE!]] * Punches [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]]* ADAMANTIUM RAGE! * Punches VideoGame/{{Kirby}}* ADAMANTIUM RAGE! * ''Tries'' [[CanCrushingCranium to crush a can against his forehead]] and fails* ADAMANTIUM RAGE! [[spoiler:[[Funny/AtopTheFourthWall * Is punched by]]]] [[spoiler:WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd * ]]
* Caboose tries to intentionally invoke this in himself when he and Sarge are trapped in a bizarre land of eternal war in ''Machinima/RedVsBlue''. 'I am Michael J Caboose ... and I HATE BABIES!' Followed by 'Hurk! Blagh!' repeatedly.
** [[spoiler:Comes back in Season 10; as the Blood Gulchers are lining up for a battle, Church says he needs Caboose to get a little angry; Caboose replies that he forgot how to do that. Church helps him remember, and Caboose charges headlong through a massive group of Tex copies.]]
* From ''Film/TheGamers'': 'Barbarian rage! Blood, death, and vengeance!'. Success rate? [[spoiler: 1 for 2.]]

* In Episode 18 of ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'', when Vegeta discovers that Gohan stole his dragon ball, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCOxVaQQrbk he completely loses it]]. His scream of rage can be heard over the entire planet, ''[[BeyondTheImpossible in space]]'', in the afterlife, and on another planet in another solar system ''twenty years in the future''. When he catches up to Krillin, he's been driven temporarily insane, his perception of color keeps changing, and he's shouting at Ghost Nappa. Gohan receiving a power-up from Super Kami Guru is the only thing that saves Krillin from a horrible death.

** On campus at the time of the original stories, the best known class-3 rager is Razorback, who has the appearance of a velociraptor and communicates through sign language. While he is a nice guy most of the time, anything that sets him off is likely to result in a drawn-out fight, as he has both SuperSpeed and a HealingFactor. For their combat finals, the teachers pitted him against [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Jimmy T.]]; the fighting went on until they were both too exhausted to continue, with the match being decided by a coin toss.
* A humor website called ''[[http://www.grudge-match.com/current.html Grudge Match (Where Useless Knowledge Breeds Champions)]]'' was a site in the vein of ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch'' or ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' run by two guys named "Brian" and "Steve" who pitted pop-culture icons against each other and argued about [[UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny who would win]]. ButtMonkey characters were often prone to what was simply known as [[SpellMyNameWithAThe "The Rage"]], which made an otherwise weak character virtually invincible. The most awesome manifestation of "The Rage" appeared in the [[WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead Beavis vs. Butthead]] fight, when Beavis, pushed beyond his limits by Butthead's constant mistreatment of him, experienced such an explosion of "The Rage" that he split into four separate personalities: himself, Cornholio, Carrotjose, and Rutabagajuan. These four "maniacs" proceeded to give Butthead the beatdown of a lifetime.
* WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}} has one in a {{Creepypasta}} [[https://cjaymarch.fandom.com/wiki/Arthur_Lost_Episode centered on a lost episode]]:
-->''“I went to school, I went to church, I played the tag team football, I learned about sharing and caring and playing, but…[[SuddenlyShouting CLOTHING]]!” Arthur screamed. “CORRECTIVE EYEGLASSES!” He screamed some more. “THAT’S MY FUCKING FACE. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis MY FUCKING. FACE!]]” Arthur got really angry.''

** King Triton has one when he destroys Ariel's secret grotto after she confesses her love to Eric. He [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone regrets it]] once he cools down.

* In ''Film/ThreeHundred'', the Captain flies into such a rage when [[spoiler:he sees his son Astinos get his head chopped off on the battlefield during a lull in the action]]. A decent amount of single-handed ass-kicking ensues, until three of his fellow Spartans have to physically restrain him and drag him back to their camp.\\

* In ''Film/ThePatriot'', French & Indian War veteran Benjamin Martin is fueled with unstoppable rage when his second-oldest son is shot point blank by the evil British Cavalry officer Col. Tavington. With minimal help from his two pint-sized sons, Ben brutally takes down a contingent of British Redcoats, not satisfied with making them dead but burning through all of that rage by hacking at one soldier's bloody corpse.

** Luke Skywalker spends most of the original trilogy actively not giving into anger, because that leads to TheDarkSide, but when Darth Vader makes the mistake of [[RelativeButton threatening to turn Leia to the Dark Side]] during their final confrontation in ''Return of the Jedi'', he immediately goes berserk, interrupts Vader's sentence, and beats Vader on sheer, Force-augmented aggression (despite being a full foot shorter and with the corresponding reach disadvantage), only stopping after he chops off Vader's mechanical hand and [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizes]] just how close he just came to [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim becoming like him]].

* PlayedForLaughs in the short film ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbGw_cWgr5U The Saw]]'' (by Creator/RoosterTeeth collaborator Samantha Ireland), where a woman attending a anger management group decides to use her fury to become a "heroine", The Saw (shortened from the original [[FunWithAcronyms Super Angry Woman]]).

* OlderThanDirt: Sekhmet, an [[Myth/EgyptianMythology Egyptian goddess]] of war, pestilence, and healing, went on a bender when some mortals dared suggest that her father, the sun god Ra, was getting a little old. She had no intention of stopping and nearly exterminated humanity. Finally Ra himself stopped her, and then only by making a literal sea of beer mixed with pomegranate juice. Sekhmet, mistaking it for blood, drank herself stupid, and thus the world was saved by alcohol.

* Cuchulainn from [[Myth/CelticMythology Irish mythology]] has a prime example of the "[[SuperpoweredEvilSide monster within]]" kind of unstoppable rage. In the epic, ''Táin Bó Cúailnge'', he enters a "ríastrad" or "Warp Spasm". In this state he transforms into a [[DemonHead horribly mutilated monster]] who doesn't know friend from foe. At one time, they broke him out of his rage by dunking him into three separate water barrels. The first one exploded, the other began boiling, and the last one finally cooled him down.

* The normally gentle Myth/{{Hindu|Mythology}} goddesss Uma can transform into death dealing, world ending Kali. She does this to kill the demon Raktabija, after all the gods cut into the demon, only to find that [[HydraProblem his blood creates clone of himself once it hits the ground.]] Kali fixes the situation by inhaling all the blood before it touches the ground as she goes on her killing frenzy. Some legends continue that she would have turned her violence on the gods if Shiva, her husband, didn’t lie amongst the dead in a desperate gambit to get her to stop. This is particularly sobering as Shiva has the ability to unmake all of creation and was pretty sure the only thing that could stop his wife from killing everyone was [[BatmanGambit to gamble on his importance to her]].

* In ''WebAnimation/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice'', the Emperor is prone to do this when he hears about something particularly [[BerserkButton wrath-inspiring]] about the Empire, such us the Inquisition, senseless waste of resources or Traitor Legions. As he's immobile, this mostly manifests by him spawning [[NegativeSpaceWedgie warp storms]].
** This went to the [[PapaWolf logical extreme]] when he found out that the Inquisition had killed off nearly all of the Senseis, his biological children, wile the others had gone into hiding and are now nearly impossible to find.
* ''WebAnimation/MysterySkullsAnimated'': When Lewis stops his rampage and seems to be connecting with Vivi Arthur (understandably) takes the opportunity to grab Vivi and run, Lewis and Vivi lose their moment to reconcile, breaking Lewis' heart (literally). As a result, Lewis becomes enraged and [[StuffBlowingUp cuts loose with his power]].

* While it is debatable whether Nist Akath of ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' falls under this or Video Games, the scene where Ironblood is betrayed by the nobles certainly springs to mind. Ironblood is poisoned by the nobles who are servants of an evil god, stripped naked, and thrown into the arena he himself ordered costructed. Then, to kill him, they release a hydra to kill him. While naked, poisoned, and vomiting, Ironblood kills the Hydra with his bare hands. By crushing its skulls. Then, he climbs out of the arena, and... well...

-->''“I went to school, I went to church, I played the tag team foot ball, I learned about sharing and caring and playing, but…[[SuddenlyShouting CLOTHING]]!” Arthur screamed. “CORRECTIVE EYEGLASSES!” He screamed some more. “THAT’S MY FUCKING FACE. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis MY FUCKING. FACE!]]” Arthur got really angry.''

* Defied with the bulls killed in bull fights, which are by nature peaceful herbivores, and have to be goaded into anger with multiple stabs of the dagger moments before they are sent to their deaths at the blades of the Matador in the arena.
* Bull elephants in musth would be the crowning animal example of unstoppable rage. A periodic hormonal condition where male elephants are extremely violent towards their surroundings unless they mate with a female, these frenzied monsters are capable of destroying everything in their path, including trees, vehicles, and houses. They can easily kill any animal within range, from carnivores to large surly animals such Cape Buffalo, Rhinos, Hippos and even other male elephants. Outside of musth, it is still very unwise to provoke ''any'' elephant; they are the largest land animals, so not many things can stop an angry elephant's rampage. There is a reason elephants are ranked as number one on ''The Most Extreme: Hissy Fits;'' even over ''Grizzly Bears'' and '''Africanized Honeybees.'''
* The African Honey Badger, while small and cuddly on the outside, is a mean fighting machine that can SLEEP OFF Cobra Bites that can kill adult men a ten times over, and EAT said cobras as a part of their staple diet. Worse, they are as bad tempered as their American counterparts the Wolverine, enough so that LIONS would rather flee for their lives than take on the wrath of these little furballs of claws and teeth.
* The Bull Shark, found in shallow tropical and semi-tropical seas and frequently in rivers that connect to them; as ounce for ounce, they have the single highest concentration of blood testosterone of ''any'' vertebrata on the planet. That's right, folks; the Male Bull Shark has a temper and rage that ''rivals'' the aforementioned Male African Elephant, ''the'' single most violent and dangerous land-mammal, in Mating Season, '''every''' single day.

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